Improvement in adhesive postal and revenue stamps



No. 101,604. v PATENTED APR. 5, 1870. EA. 0. FLETCHER;

ADHESIVE POSTAL AND REVENUE STAMP.

, l Inaeigfill' i OWE? same, taken as indicated by the UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADDISON o. FLETCHER, or nnw YORK, N. Y.

,IMPIROVEMENT IN ADHESIVE POSTAL AND REVENUE. STAMPS.

I Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 101,604, dated April 5,1870; antedated October 5, 1869.

. of which the following is a full, clear, and

exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which--- Figure 1 represents a face view of a series of adhesive stamps made in accordance with my improvement; and Big. 2, a section of the Fig. 1.'

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My improvement in postage, internal-revenue, and other adhesive stamps involves or includes a new method of canceling them, whereby, in any attempt to remove them from the documents or surfaces to which they have been applied, they are so effectually mutilated v and destroyed as to makeit an impossibility to use them a second time without adetection of the fraud. My invention consists in constructing the stamps with a hole or holes through the body of them, and covering or backing the same with thin tissue or other bibnlous paper, made to firmly adhere to the stamp, and the rear surface of the stamp, with its bibulous-paper covering to the hole, coated or backed with mucilagejor otheradhesive substance, while the front surface oror tearing of the tissue or bibnlous portion of it.

The following further description, referring to the accompanying drawing, will suffice to explain how this my invention is or may be carried'out.

Thus, I'take a sheet of stamps, A, and punch through the body portions of each line .11 .r instamp one or more perforations, a, after which the backs of the stamps are covered by a sheet of tissue or any thin bibnlous paper, B, firmly cemented thereto by mucilage or otherwise, so as to cover the holes a in the stamps, and subsequently mucilage or other suitable adhesivesubstance applied to the exterior surface of the tissuerpaper and backs of the stamps, to secure the adhesion of the stamps, by moistening them on their backs,-or otherwise moistening the surfaces to which said stamps are designed to be. applied. y

The stamps A have any suitable vignette or figure vengraved or printed on them, as also has the tissue or bibnlous paper B, covering the perforations a in them, This printing on the two surfaces or portions A and B of the stamps may either be done separately and before applying the bibnlous paper to the backs of the stamps, or it may be done after the bibnlousv paper has been-secured thereto, the perforationa in the stamp so on that part of its surface or back covering the perforations a in the stamp, by reason of its thinner construction at that part, as produced by the tissue or bibnlous-paper covering to the-perforations a, so that, and by reason of the delicate and peculiar character or property of said paper, any attempt to remove. said stamp without defacing it by first moistening it will be useless, for the bibnlous paper covering the opening a will be so washed or torn as that, in the endeavor to remove the stamp, it will have its design more or less destroyed or do faced, and thus prevent a second use of the stamp. V

What is here claimed, and desired to be se cured by Letters Patent, is- Y An adhesive stamp made up of a. thick and the Iatterbeipg suitablyengraved or portion or body, A, having a perforation or printed on its face, and having adhesive maperforations, a, through the face of it, and; terial applied to its back, substantially as thinner portion, B, composed of tissue or any specified. i suitable bibulous paper, and applied' as a t I ADDISON G. FLETCHER. covering to said perforation or perforations, Witnesses: both portions being securely connected or in- A. LE OLERG, corporatedto make up the complete stamp, A. KINNIER. 

